30.09.2016

800 solar panels on our hospital roofs in Haiti

How the HAS installed a solar sytem

Schweizer Partnerschaft Hôpital Albert Schweizer Haiti (SPHASH) Until shortly the HAS had tremdendous costs of energy at the hospital every year: US$ 400,000 for electricity production from diesel generators! That money should be used for healthcare, Hermann Thomi said, and so began our HAS SOLAR PROJECT. Haiti is very sunny, but the power supply in most places is still largely provided by expensive and environmentally harmful diesel generators, simply because the grid infrastructure is lacking.